Every leader knows human skills decide performance. We build the one underneath psychological safety and purpose, with a method used at 50+ companies, schools, and organizations from NASA to JPMorgan Chase.
Gartner names culture atrophy a top-four CHRO priority for 2026, as teams absorb reorgs, AI transformation and constant change.
In 2026, a national health insurer ran a company-wide values week at its flagship internal conference. Michael was chosen as one of eight instructors after a competitive content review, and delivered two 60-minute interactive virtual sessions to thousands of employees, with live polls, chat and scenario work.
“The third body activity was one of the most powerful things I’ve seen in a webinar. Watching participants move from frustration with a task to real commitment, just by shifting their perspective, was incredible.”
Director of Learning Experience, enterprise learning platform, July 2026
Most partners start with a talk or the Innovation Sprint, then build. Every format runs on the same Five Phases, and partnerships are always priced below the sum of their parts. Tools bundle into any format.
Keynote or all-hands, always interactive. Inspiration plus a first working tool. 45 minutes to 2 hours.
The Five Phases applied to a live business problem: a reorg, a rebrand, an AI rollout. 2 to 16 hours, KPI-tracked.
A two-hour working session for up to 50 leaders. Installs the model through education, play and live practice.
Train-the-trainer. Six 90-minute sessions, cohorts of up to 20, leaving you in-house facilitators.
A six-month executive cohort: individual and group coaching on the Five Phases as an operating system.
Empathy at your key people moments: hiring, onboarding, reviews, leadership development. Retainer-based.
Weekly one-to-one and group coaching across a guided Five Phases arc, closing in a personal growth audit. Members bring the practice back to their own teams. One client has embedded it in hiring, onboarding and reviews. Cohort 2 is enrolling now.
“It’s like yoga. Now I can do a lot more than I could the first three times.”
Founding cohort member, hospitality and sales leader
The business world already knows psychological safety and purpose matter. Michael builds the skill underneath both, and he runs every session himself.
Founded Curiosity Lab in 2017, created Actually Curious™ in 2018, developed the Five Phases of Empathy™ in 2020. Backed by Pharrell’s Black Ambition Prize, with grants from PayPal, Amazon, Verizon and Facebook.
100+ talks and workshops, at NASA, IDEO, Stanford, JPMorgan Chase, SXSW, Johns Hopkins and the US State Department.
Cannes Lions and OMMA award-winning media executive, with work for P&G, Coca-Cola, Google, Delta and Oatly. Founded VICE’s AdVICE network and Omnicom PHD’s Content Marketing Division.
The Power of Empathy, published by Chronicle Books and one of Inc.’s Best Non-Obvious Business Books, and The Abundance Journal. Contributing writer for Inc. and Oprah Daily.
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